Posts by kidhazy

Has anyone had any luck trying to install the scraper Skyscraper GitHub - muldjord/skyscraper: Powerful and versatile game scraper written in c++ on RetroELEC on a RPI4 build?

Given the RPi4 image is fairly locked down I couldn't do the manual apt-get install, and I couldn't get the wget install working either.

I've just started to get back into retro gaming and want to get some of the Video Snaps to jazz up the EmulationStation frontend and SkyScraper appears to be one of the easy ways to scrape for the videos for the Mame games.

Cheers.

Quote from Mario77

I m sure few posts back on this thread bite_your_idols was trying to get ES to work with RPi 4 with no success...on the other hand AEL and RA works fine and you can set them up with all the bells and whistles i.e artwork etc..

edit it's post #1069

Ah thanks. I wasn't quite sure if RPi4 was fully supported. I got RA working with the manual config change. I'd just switched over from the RetroELEC build which has ES, RA working on RPi4, so I'm sure it's possible. I'll just wait it out.

Cheers.

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Hello,

I have migrate my librelec to 9.2 on rpi4.

Retroarch work fine.

But emulationstation don't work ...

I have this log :

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lvl2:     EmulationStation - v2.0.1a, built Jan 24 2017 - 15:30:02
lvl2:     Creating surface...
lvl0:     Error creating SDL window!
    Could not create GLES window surface
lvl0:     Renderer failed to initialize!
lvl0:     Window failed to initialize!

Any idea ?

Regards

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I've just done a new install of Gamestarter on my RPi4 LibreELEC 9.2.3 install and get the same error when trying to start EmulationStation.

EmulationStation is installed from GameStarter repository and is v8.201.1

emulationstation_debug.log shows:

ConfigPath /storage/.config/emulationstation
lvl0:     Error creating SDL window!
    Could not create GLES window surface
lvl0:     Renderer failed to initialize!
lvl0:     Window failed to initialize!

emulationstation.log shows:

EmulationStation [ADDON] :: Sat Jul 25 17:24:51 AEST 2020
============================================================
EmulationStation [ADDON] :: Firts Run!
EmulationStation [ADDON] :: RPi
EmulationStation [ADDON] :: Kodi is ready.
EmulationStation [ADDON] :: RPi4.arm-9.2.3 - Sat Jul 25 17:24:55 AEST 2020
EmulationStation [ADDON] :: Stop kodi...
EmulationStation [ADDON] :: Launch EmulationStation (See process output in emulationstation_debug.log)
EmulationStation [ADDON] :: Set LC_ALL=C
EmulationStation [ADDON] :: Restart kodi...

I can get RetroArch working and playing cores OK. LibreELEC works OK.

Any pointers from anyone?

EDIT: Resolved. Found default.cfg in ~/.config/retroarch/savefiles/mame2003-plus/cfg

How to restore default mame2003plus in game keys on my RetroELEC installation on my Raspberry Pi?

I stuffed up the in-game options key settings (the ones normally invoked eg. with TAB). I made 'select' Nul - which makes it a bit hard to fix things.

But, I can't figure out in RetroELEC which CFG file to delete to revert back to default. RetroELEC seems to have slightly different paths to standard RetroArch/RetroPie.

Which CFG file can I delete? I've tried /storage/.config/retroarch/retroarch.cfg but that didn't reset it. The keys on the mame2016 still work, so it's something core/system specific, but I just can't find it.

Can someone point me in the right direction on RetroELEC?

Thanks.

I'm running LibreELEC on an intel laptop with the Enigma2 PVR Client Addon.

LibreELEC (official): 9.2.3, kernel: Linux x86 64-bit version 5.1.16

Kodi (18.7 Git:18.7.1-Leia). Platform: Linux x86 64-bit

I've got Enigma2 PVR Addon v3.28.7.1 installed from the LibreELEC Add-ons repository.

It says there's an updated version v3.28.9.1 available.

If I try to install, it fails - "Add-on couldn't be loaded. An unknown error has occurred."

Checking the log I see:

ERROR: Unable to load /storage/.kodi/addons/pvr.vuplus/pvr.vuplus.so.3.28.9, reason: /storage/.kodi/addons/pvr.vuplus/pvr.vuplus.so.3.28.9: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

The updated v3.28.9.1 plugin installs and works on a RPi 32-bit installation.

Any idea of the cause of the error? Is there some conflict between 64 bit version and plugin?

With current RPi and Libreelec setups do most people just use the SD for boot/system/storage - or is still recommend to also include a USB key to put storage on?

I remember years ago it was recommended to use a USB so the system on the SD could be blown away easily without impacting the environment (I think that was the story)

But now with larger, faster SD cards I was about to rebuild a RPi and was probably going to get rid of the USB key.

What's the current recommendations with SD and USB keys?

(My video files are on a network share)

Thanks.

Quote from BlaBla1973

Update my system to : 20170823 generic

Emulatorstation won't start..

error log:

emulationstation: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL2-2.0.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I get the same error on Version devel-20170824 generic.

Where's the file meant to be?

EDIT: on the 20170824 system I found:

/usr/lib/libSDL2-2.0.so (** Link to /usr/lib/libSDL2-2.0.so.0)
/usr/lib/libSDL2-2.0.so.0 (** Link to /usr/lib/libSDL2-2.0.so.0.6.0)
/usr/lib/libSDL2-2.0.so.0.6.0

On an old 20170530 system I find:

/usr/lib/libSDL2-2.0.so (** Link to /usr/lib/libSDL2-2.0.so.1)

/usr/lib/libSDL2-2.0.so.0.4.1

/usr/lib/libSDL2-2.0.so.1 (** Link to /usr/lib/libSDL2-2.0.so.0.4.1)

It looks like 20170824 is missing the libSDL2-2.0.so.1 link ??

Cheers.

I'm running LibreELEC on a RPi in a excercise area and I turn the RPi off each time between sessions.

Is there a config setting to have LibreELEC start back up in the menu/screen area it was when it was turned off rather than back to the home screen?

eg. if I was in a episode list of a TV Show, to start back up in the same list - or at least in the TV Shows section.

I don't know if this is something with the mame2014 engine, or how it's been configured under the Community Extended build, but I cannot figure out:

1) saving of high scores

2) saving game states (says Core does not support state saves)

3) Enabling cheats

This is all for traditional Arcade based games (Galaxian, Donkey Kong, etc).

Anyone got any pointers? This is running on a x64 platform.

Thanks.

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How do you determine the Retroarch version installed with LibreELEC Community Edition?

When I go into RetroArch no version info is displayed in the lower-left corner. Not sure if this is a config item, but I can't get it to display.

I'm trying to compare 2 different LibreELEC installs (1xCommunity, 1x with RetroArch 1.5.0 installed) and wanted to confirm the verison.

Cheers.

Found it. To have the Retroarch and core info displayed in the lower-left corner there is an advanced setting to enable.

To display the version number on the Retroarch Menu follow the following menu configurations:

1. Settings
2. User Interface
3. Show Advanced Settings: ON
4. Menu
5. Display core name: ON

How do you determine the Retroarch version installed with LibreELEC Community Edition?

When I go into RetroArch no version info is displayed in the lower-left corner. Not sure if this is a config item, but I can't get it to display.

I'm trying to compare 2 different LibreELEC installs (1xCommunity, 1x with RetroArch 1.5.0 installed) and wanted to confirm the verison.

Cheers.

Quote from escalade

The skin sounds were changed to the scroll sound from the default ES theme (simple-dark). You can't actually change them due to the read-only nature of LE, but you could copy the estuary theme from /usr/share/kodi/addons to /storage/.kodi/addons and replace the sounds there.

New build 20170528 has been uploaded that fixes the cherry trail / tronsmart x5 plus pcm issue (updated alsa-lib).

Cheers.

In the end I grabbed the original sounds from xbmc/addons/resource.uisounds.kodi at master · xbmc/xbmc · GitHub and put them in /storage/.kodi/addons and then enabled them via the addons menu.

Thanks for the pointers.

Are the Kodi GUI sounds on LibreELEC Community meant to be different from vanilla LE?

I've noticed on both a RPi and Generic (X64) build that the GUI Sounds are different under a LibreELEC build.

Is this the audio drivers, or have the skin sounds been updated?

Either way, is there a way to use the original GUI sounds?

Thanks.

With the latest LibreELEC builds I can pair a wiimote with a Raspberry Pi 3 (with builtin bluetooth) to control the LibreELEC menus.

I want to extend this to use with Retroarch (which has been installed by the GameStarter addon).

All the tutorials talk about installing wminput via apt-get - which is not available with LibreELEC.

Has anyone played around with getting a wiimote (and attached classic controller) working on LibreELEC RPi for Retroarch ?

Cheers.

Has anyone looked at adding the "Emulators" menu item to the Confluence skin that can be retrofitted on Kodi 17?

I'm not a big fan of Estuary and have switched most of my LibreELEC V8 systems back to Confluence - but I can't see how to use Confluence to launch EmulationStation on the Community build.
(I'm on a generic x86_64 build)

Thanks.

Been playing around with GameStarter on a RPi and trying to get the Arcade Overlay Bezels for Mame2003 to work.

Most of the tutorials are for a RetroPie default installation.

What I found was I needed to modify the game.zip.cfg files to point to where I installed that Overlays and Shaders.

But, more importantly, I had to update gamestarter.start to call in the additional game.zip.cfg file.

I modified line 96:
from: $DIR/resources/bin/retroarch -c $CONFIG_FILE -L $LIBRETRO_DIR/$1_libretro.so "$2" &> $LOG_FILE_RA
to: $DIR/resources/bin/retroarch -c $CONFIG_FILE --appendconfig "$2.cfg" -L $LIBRETRO_DIR/$1_libretro.so "$2" &> $LOG_FILE_RA

I also updated RetroArch config so that the config file is not saved on RetroArch exit.

This works for me, and loads the additional config file to add in the shader and overlay info.

I'd like to know if this modification is really necessary - or have I missed something?

Cheers.

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Does anyone have a good set of settings, or a debug guide for getting good sound on a RPi3 using Gamestarter to launch Retorarch Mame games?

I've got sound working on most games, but for some there's strong static or hiss along with the sound effects (eg. Donkey Kong, Defender).

I'm using mame2003 via Retroarch and using mame 0.78 ROMs.

I'm connected via HDMI and have also tried a couple of ROMs.

Is there a particular setting (audio driver?) that provides best sound on a RPi 3 via HDMI ?

I'm just lost where to start. Most of my searching finds hits for sound not working at all. I just have some games with annoying background noise that shouldn't be there.

Cheers.

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Finally figured out my buzzing noise problem on Retroarch under GameStarter.

I had to set "Vertical Refresh Rate" to 50 Hz in Retroarch Video settings.

Retropie had an additional retroarch.cfg file in /dev/shm that appended video_refresh_rate = 50

Sound all working now.

Quote from kidhazy

Yes, had tried a clean LibreELEC - but had also done RetroArch update after the install. I'll try another fresh LibreELEC install with just Gamestarter and see what happens.

Just tried a fresh rebuild of LibreELEC from here LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-8.0.1.img.gz on to my Raspberry Pi Model 3

Installed Gamestarter V2.8 add-on and copied MAME 0.78 ROMs (reference set) over.

Still have a background 'hiss' on some games such a dkong.zip and defender.zip.

I can't figure out the difference between this build and the RetroPie build for running these ROMs under Retroarch.